This page includes info regarding how the PTA can assist you with:

Money

Student Enrichment

Production Lab

PTA FUNDS FOR TEACHERS & STAFF 

Teacher Allotments -The PTA will provide teachers with an allotment to spend on items to be used in the classroom. You can spend the money on any type of items  (including painting, curtains, etc…) as long as they are used in the classroom. Full-time teachers will receive $100 and part-time teachers $50.
Deadline to request reimbursement: November 11, 2009
Check Request Form  Place completed form along with attached receipts in the PTA drawer in teacher’s lunchroom.  Receipts should not contain any personal items.  Please allow one week to receive your check.

Fun Run Money -We will once again be using Boosterthon Fun Run as our main fundraiser.  The Fun Run will be in September.  Each teacher earns 10% of what is collected in his/her classroom by 9/28.  This money is to be used for instructional support items.  You will be told your final 10% amount by the end of the month.  Last year a few teachers received over $400!
Deadline to request reimbursement: November 11, 2009
Check Request Form  Place completed form along with attached receipts in the PTA drawer in teacher’s lunchroom.  Receipts should not contain any personal items.  Please allow one week to receive your check.

Instructional Support Grants -Each grade (K-5) could recieve up to $1500 of Instructional Support money.  In addition to the regular grade level grants, we have budgeted $250 for each special ed class, $600 for Target and $500 for each special (music, art, technology and P.E.).

Do not purchase or prepay for items until your grant has been approved first by Mrs. Hanauer and then by the PTA.

Deadline to turn in Grant Request form is January 8, 2010.

Grant Request Form Turn your completed form into Lori Smith so she can verify total cost. She will turn the form into Mrs. Hanauer.  Once Mrs. Hanauer approves your request, she will turn the form over to the PTA.  The request will then be voted on at our next executive board meeting.  We meet around once a month.  Those dates can be found on the PTA calendar.  After the meeting you will be informed on whether the grant has been approved.

Email any questions to Susan Piotrowski at piotrowski@mindspring.com.

STUDENT ENRICHMENT ACTIVITIES PROVIDED BY THE PTA

Our PTA would like to provide classroom and grade level activities to support what is being taught in the classroom.  The PTA will provide all materials for these activities. 
Deadline to make a request is October 15th.

Student Enrichment Request Form

Examples from the 2008-2009 School Year:  The Mad Scientist team provided programs for several grades. The first grade students built a food chain pyramid and made models of food chains. The team was very busy in the second grade. We supported their study of energy and simple machines by building simple machines with legos that were able to do work, including shooting marshmallows at targets. To further the second grade study of stars and constellations we provided a lesson on the characteristics of stars, reading star charts and using them to locate constellations in the night sky. The third grade students got their hands dirty dissecting owl pellets and using them to further their study on habitats and nature. The final activity the mad scientist team provided was frog dissection. The In-School Enrichment committee was able to provide frogs for the 4^th and 5^th grade target classes. Our Mad Scientist team then led the dissection.  Questions regarding Student Enrichment Activities -contact kdivelbiss@bellsouth.net.